Tracie Schuler awaits an October trial following her arraignment Wednesday in Washoe County District Court on charges of child abuse and/or neglect causing death, and second-degree murder.
Schuler is accused of either intentionally giving her daughter, Jessika Haberle, a fatal dose of methadone, or of negligently leaving the narcotic where the girl had easy access to it and was able to accidentally ingest it.
Authorities say the 43-year-old Schuler is a former heroin addict who has taken prescribed doses of liquid methadone to curb symptoms of heroin withdrawal.
According to court records, Jessika was born addicted to methadone.
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